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Comment by anthonyb | Hacker News Reader

The headers are not visually associated with their paragraphs. So you have this:

  para para para para
  
  Header
  
  para para para para

instead of:

  para para para para
  
  Header
  para para para para

Not sure that the ascii art does it justice, but that's hopefully clearer.

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It's actually not that. Spacing a header equally between preceding and following paragraphs can work fine. There's an obvious association with the following paragraph, because headers are expected to come before content, and so you don't need to imply that association visually.

In this case, the header is closer to the preceding paragraph (~15px) than to the following paragraph (~19px). It's visually implying a connection that doesn't exist, which is why it's problematic.

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